"The miracle is that the listener at home, shocked and stunned, does the same... We're equally harrowed when the more frenetic strain of the scherzo goes over the wall in its last death-dance...when the tragedy queen of night's chariot flies into the nocturnal air and the carnival revellers of the finale storm the barricades of civil dignity. Into these unpredictable anarchies glide mysteries and beauties over which Abbbado...throw[s] a magical veil at a second's notice." *****, BBC